# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-kantner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:30:12.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-kantner"
name: "Paul Kantner"
slug: "paul-kantner"
description: "Paul Lorin Kantner was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band."
tagline: "American singer and guitarist (1941–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Kantner_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-03-17"
deathDate: "2016-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           24.18356
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/the-band/paul-kantner/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump